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Michael Bloomberg and Bernie Sanders (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Is a doctor's note enough in 2020?

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News

Questions over candidates' medical records escalates after Sanders and Bloomberg spar in last week's debate

Voting booths in polling place (Getty Images/Hill Street Studios)

Why "don’t-care Dems" may re-elect Trump

David Cay Johnston - DCReport

How major news outlets misread Sanders’s Nevada victory: Turnout was awful, 84% of the state’s Democrats said no

Behind the scenes of "Knives Out" with Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, and director Rian Johnson (Lionsgate)

Apple: Movie bad guys can't use iPhones

Zack Sharf - Indiewire

No wonder the killer in "Knives Out" is one of the only characters who does not use an Apple product

The Ebola Virus and the Coronavirus looked at through a microscope (Getty Images)

Inside COVID-19's bizarre genetics

Nicole Karlis

The "genomic packing" mechanism of COVID-19 may be more like Ebola and HIV, researchers in the US and China say

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"Impossible Foods" burgers made from plant-based substitutes for meat products (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Is an "approximeat" too meaty for Lent?

Ashlie D. Stevens

The annual debate over what is and isn't allowed during Lent becomes more difficult as food technology improves

Anthony Mackie in "Altered Carbon" (Diya Pera / Netflix)

"Altered Carbon": New season, new sleeve

Melanie McFarland

Anthony Mackie stars in the new season of Netflix's futuristic series, but the story doesn't truly up the ante

Laurence Tribe and Donald Trump (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump suing The New York Times

Matthew Rozsa

Trump’s re-election campaign accused The Times of libel over an editorial it called “false and defamatory”

Love Is Blind (Netflix)

Reality TV's new kooky algorithms

Hanh Nguyen

Technology has forever changed how we communicate, and the new breed of reality shows are trying to puzzle it out

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President Donald Trump, with members of the president's coronavirus task force, speaks during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Media covering for Trump's incoherence

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch

Reporters pretended not to notice Trump's bewildering performance at Wednesday's coronavirus press conference

Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Donald Trump (AP Photo/Salon)

Obama blasts pro-Trump super PAC ad

Matthew Rozsa

The ad uses “President Obama's voice out of context and twisting his words to mislead viewers,” a spokesperson says

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders I-Vt., speaks at a campaign event in Tacoma, Wash., Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Will superdelegates stop Bernie Sanders?

Igor Derysh

Nearly 90% of superdelegates would block Bernie Sanders if he does not win a majority of delegates outright

Lori Loughlin, center, and her husband Mossimo Giannulli, behind her at right, leave the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on Aug. 27, 2019. A judge says actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, can continue using a law firm that recently represented the University of Southern California. The couple appeared in Boston federal court on Tuesday to settle a dispute over their choice of lawyers in a sweeping college admissions bribery case. Prosecutors had said their lawyers pose a potential conflict of interest. Loughlin and Giannulli say the firms work for USC was unrelated to the admissions case and was handled by different lawyers. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

New evidence in college admissions scam

Matthew Rozsa

Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, claim that they were told the money they spent was being used legally

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (Getty/Win McNamee)

Dems want DOJ to probe Richard Grenell

Igor Derysh

"He may be subject to potential civil and criminal liability, as well as vulnerable to blackmail," Schumer says

President Donald Trump, with members of the president's coronavirus task force, speaks during a news conference in the Brady press briefing room at the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump to voters: Get sick! Not my fault!

Amanda Marcotte

Trump and his trolls downplay coronavirus to protect him — and may be encouraging their fans to take dumb risks

U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein, right, speaks at a news conference in Baltimore, Wednesday, March 1, 2017, to announce that seven Baltimore police officers who worked on a firearms crime task force are facing charges of stealing money, property and narcotics from people over two years. Standing alongside Rosenstein is Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Kevin Davis. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (AP)

Limbaugh pushes coronavirus conspiracy

Igor Derysh

The brother of a top Centers for Disease Control official is former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein

Mike Pence (Getty/Joe Raedle)

Health "expert" Pence botched HIV crisis

Igor Derysh

Mike Pence's "defining moment" as a one-term governor was "enabling an HIV outbreak" in 2015

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wave after a "Namaste Trump," event at Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, in Ahmedabad, India. India poured on the pageantry with a joyful, colorful welcome for President Donald Trump on Monday that kicked off a whirlwind 36-hour visit meant to reaffirm U.S.-India ties while providing enviable overseas imagery for a president in a re-election year. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

"Namaste Trump"

Sumit Ganguly - The Conversation

Trump’s visit diverges from past presidents by focusing on India’s increasing spending on U.S. military supplies

President Donald Trump, with members of the President's Coronavirus Task Force, holds a paper about countries best and least prepared to deal with a pandemic, during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump's coronavirus snafu and the GOP

Sophia Tesfaye

Republican response to potential pandemic aims at protecting Trump with cowardice, hypocrisy and outright lies

Indian Muslim women participate in a rally to protest against a new citizenship law in Rupahi hat village, east Gauhati, India, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020. The law fast-tracks naturalization for non-Muslim migrants from neighboring Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who are living in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Indian citizenship laws spur uprisings

Alka Kurian - The Conversation

Today's activists fully embrace the idea that women's freedom means little if other groups are still oppressed

David Wright (LORENZO BEVILAQUA/WALT DISNEY TELEVISION/GETTY IMAGES)

ABC newsman tells truth, is punished

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, with his wife Jane, speaks during a campaign event in San Antonio, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Bernie can't win! Except, yeah, he can

Jim Naureckas - FAIR

Even at "liberal" Mother Jones, bad science is deployed to pour cold water on Sanders' electoral prospects

Donald Trump during Press Briefing with Press Secretary Sarah Sanders (YouTube/The White House)

300+ days without a press briefing

Charles Bierbauer - The Conversation

“Bringing the American people in on the process, early and often, makes for better democracy”

The One Franklin Square Building in Washington that houses the Washington Post. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) (AP)

WaPo editor ripped for "ignorant" op-ed

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams

That attempted comparison spurred a wave of criticism from progressive critics and informed experts.

Donald Trump and Richard Nixon (AP Photo/Alex Brandon/Getty Image/Ketstone)

Watergate atty.: Trump worse than Nixon

Alex Henderson - Alternet

"Donald Trump is a much more existential threat to democracy than Richard Nixon was," says Jill Wine-Banks

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